High Tower has tracked down the red-haired woman he's after, and with his unnatural power, he plans to exact revenge for a past defeat at her hands...Meanwhile, the rest of the Perfumer's crew goes up against Kuroko and Hinako, and at long last, Celine's true motives are revealed! Who is the person she seeks, and could they be closer than she realizes?
As the members of the wealthy Yamatsukami family are murdered one by one, Hinako, Chiyo, and Narumi stumble upon a crop of roses growing deep in the mountains. Flowers with the same cloying fragrance as those grown by the Virginal Rose cult... There, Narumi and company also find a collapsed woman...who turns her unusual powers against them! The Yamatsukami arc finally draws to a close!
Celine Argente, an internationally wanted perfumer adept in the art of killing with poisons, has entered Japan with a group of conspirators, and among them is a former member of the Metropolitan Police Department! While their aims and their employer's identity are shrouded in mystery, their work is about to begin. An invisible poison creeps through the streets of Ruruie City...
Rinko's friend, Eruno, whose father she murdered, has been kidnapped by a man looking to become her new father himself! The perpetrator obsesses over her, even giving her his late child's name, and all she can do is play along as she waits for someone to rescue her... Meanwhile, the police rush to investigate, following the man's trail and discovering a strange letter in the process. After reading it, Kuroko narrows the man's possible whereabouts down to two locations, but she'll need to act quickly...
Former fencer Hazuki Sendou, who's obsessed with the Yanaoka Group's Zenpachi Kurogane, finally faces off against Kurono Miyamoto inside Hikaru in the conclusion of the Marksman arc! Later, the scene shifts to a brutal family murder in which the father is only left alive until the rest of his family is dead. While the killer's identity remains a mystery, it's clear they'll stop at nothing to settle the score...
Kuroko's group goes to a hot spring deep in the mountains, where the entirety of the land is owned by the wealthy Yamatsukami family. But right as the family is going to decide the next heir, the third son is found murdered... To make matters worse, the only road in and out of the area is suddenly destroyed! Cut off from the rest of the world, the family begins to whisper about a mysterious "Ayako." With little to go on, how will Kuroko solve this closed-room case?
When a bridge becomes the site of a grisly murder of a man whose corpse wasfound with deep stab wounds, the police set their sights on an ex-fencer withunderworld ties named Sendou. Meanwhile, an old member of Chiyo's yakuzafamily has finally been released from prison, but soon after she welcomes himback, Sendou appears, and he seems to want a word with him...
Ten years ago, criminal mastermind "Comedy Writer" disappeared without a trace, confounding police and leaving a trail of bewildered victims in his wake. Now, a string of peculiar crimes leads the police to suspect he may have resurfaced, and the man in charge of the original case has returned to the force to solve this mystery once and for all! But Kuroko's got her own idea of who the culprit is, and she's willing to do whatever it takes to expose him!
The circus is in town, but it's not the only shocking spectacle around-not when hundreds of people have been tied to a floating ad balloon and there's been a knife attack among circus staff! Though seemingly unrelated, these incidents have one important link: All parties involved have a curious bout of amnesia. Signs point to an old criminal known as "Comedy Writer," but have they truly emerged from the past to strike again? Kuroko the lady-killer is on the case!
Pursuing a string of murders involving corpses drained of blood, Kuroko and her hulking buddy, Urara, descend into the sewers to rescue Narumi from an all-too-familiar face. Narumi herself is determined to escape with her fellow captives, but between her broken leg and the mazelike underground tunnels, their odds of escape are grim. It's a race against the clock as the killer prepares for their next meal...!